Why China Will Win The New Global Arms Race

David Brown, BBC News: Why China could win the new global arms race 

China is building up its armed forces at a rapid pace. Its advances in missile technology, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence have triggered serious concern among many Western observers, who believe a profound shift in the global balance of military power is under way. 

President Xi Jinping has ordered China's armed forces to modernise by 2035. They should, he says, become a "world-class" military power, capable of "fighting and winning wars" by 2049. 

 It is a huge undertaking, but the country is on target.  

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WNU Editor: China already has the manufacturing infrastructure to build anything and everything that they want quickly and in huge numbers (and on the cheap).

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